The Populares and Individual Freedom Parties have approved a merger, to be provisionally called the Populares-Individual Freedom Party, use the abbreviation POP, and the color teal (as currently used by the Populares). All Populares and Individual Freedom members should be considered members of these two parties.

“They cheated us again and again, made decisions behind our back, presenting us with completed facts. That’s the way it was with the expansion of NATO in the East, with the deployment of military infrastructure at our borders. They always told us the same thing: 'Well, this doesn't concern you.'" -Vladimir Putin